Call For Artists

HEAD FARMER / URBAN GARDENING EDUCATOR

While STH waits for the completion of the steel work needed to re-inforce our roof in preparation for the spring installation of the new “Gowanus Sky Farm” (designed by Gwen Schantz of Brooklyn Grange and funded by the DEP), we would like to sign-on a head farmer to create and administrate the new urban gardening programs we envision for the roof next season, as well as supervise and oversee the planting, growing, harvesting and upkeep of the farm itself. Please send letter of interest and experience to spoke@spokethehub.org then let’s talk.

Also, anyone interested in being involved in any part of the new farm project should also get in touch now. STH hopes to schedule a first group planning meeting in early November: spoke@spokethehub.org.

STH ALUMNI (1985-PRESENT) FOR STUDENT ALUMNI PRODUCTIONS NEXT SPRING

Planning for the Gowanus’s “Grand Re-Opening Events” next spring has begun! If you have been a STH student in the last 38 years and are now creating and presenting your own art work as adult professionals, please get in touch! We know many of you who have kept in touch have become active professional dancers, actors, choreographers, visual artists, musicians, writers and film-makers in your own right all over the country, so please plan to join us next spring and share your artistry to christen our “new” arts center. Also, if you are still in touch with other STH alumni that we may have lost touch with, please forward this “shout-out” to these old students as well and have them get in touch too.

PERFORMERS WHO HAVE PRESENTED WORK AT THE GOWANUS (OR GOWANUS ARTS EXCHANGE) SINCE 1985

STH invites all performing artists who have invested our 3rd floor dance and performance space with your creative energy and artistry over the last three plus decades to take part in our “Gowanus Arts Grand Re: Opening Festivities” next spring. This would include any individual artist or group that performed as part of any of STH’s OUTBACK SERIES, KIDS’ OUTBACK, MENTORS’ OUTBACK, GROUNDHOG PERFORMANCE SERIES FOR FAMILY AUDIENCES, GOWANUS WILDLIFE PRESERVE Showcases, GOWANUS GUEST ROOM Showcases, WINTER FOLLIES Showcases, DIRECTOR’S CHOICE Showcases or any independent productions you produced yourself in our space at the Gowanus.

Also, please forward this announcement to any artists you know who performed in our spaces who are no longer living in the NYC area. They are invited to celebrate with us too. And, if you know artists in our community who have passed away in this time period, please let us know that as well so we can also honor their memory at these re-opening events. spoke@spokethehub.org

Gowanus Arts Development Project

As part of our new Gowanus Arts Development project, STH is looking for artists and craftspeople to join us in this community building effort.We will be seeking:

Electricians

Carpenters

Plumbers

Masons

Metalworkers

Solar Installation Experts

Landscape Designers

Stained Glass Artists

Sculptors

Painters

Craftspeople of every ilk

Farmers and Garden Stewards

The “new” Gowanus Arts will need help creating various furnishings such as benches, tables, chandeliers, bike racks, counters, planters, fountains, rain barrels, banisters, seat covers, curtains, table-cloths, murals, and signage and we would like these furnishings to reflect the hand-made originality, warmth and creative energy that animates our building. We are seeking local artists and craftspeople who want to create some of these furnishings in exchange for classes as well as utilize our building as a showcase site for their work. To discuss your ideas and what you might offer, please contact spoke@spokethehub.org.

WINTER FOLLIES SHOWCASE 2017

Call for Performing ArtistsAPPLICATION DEADLINE: December 15, 2016

COME PERFORM 5 MINUTES OF WHATEVER IT IS YOU DO BEST at Spoke the Hub’s 16th Annual “Winter Follies!” You might show a spanking new work, or something old and beloved from your vast performance archives. Maybe even something improvisational? It could be wildly experimental or a work that comes out of a well-honed tradition. Could be a solo or group work. Whatever you present, think minimal (read “zero”) set-up and strike time. Everything is fair game…so be brave.

LOCAL PRODUCE 2017
Festival of the Performing Arts

Call for Performers and Teaching ArtistsAPPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2017

STH is now accepting proposals from Brooklyn-based performance and teaching artists of all genres for outdoor, participatory, family friendly arts workshops and site specific performances to be presented in several of Park Slope’s most luscious community gardens throughout the Spring and Summer of 2017.

Call For Master Teaching Artists:

Have a skill or particular domain of expertise you might want to share with others on a Tuesday night in a one-shot workshop format this fall?

What can you offer? Wine Tasting 101? Make Your Own Organic Lotions and Potions? Disappear Back Pain Through Pilates and Alexander Exercises? Magic Tricks For All Ages? Tap Dance For Beginners? Isadora Duncan Dance For the Masses? Origami Creations?

Interested in presenting a one-off class at Spoke?
Please contact: spoke@spokethehub.org with proposals and length of presentation.

WOW (WORKS ON THE WALL) ART EXHIBITS

The walls of the Spoke the Hub Re: Creation Center host a new changing solo visual art exhibit every 4-6 weeks entitled “Works on the Wall” which features the art of local painters, photographers, print makers and multi-media artists. Exhibit requests are reviewed throughout the year. Artists should be aware that the space is an active one, filled with children and adults 7 days a week, thus content should be considered before applying.

To apply: artists should submit a resume, a hard copy “portfolio” of current work or website address, and an SASE for return of materials to: Spoke the Hub Re:Creation Center, 748 Union Street, Brooklyn 11215.